[queenoftheshire]

I am right now. I ABSOLUTLY LOVE IT!!! If you have it or are going to get it I highly recommend listening to The Steward of Gondor AS SOON AS YOU GET IT!!!

[bruisepristine]

I've been meaning to buy the FoTR, TTT, and RoTK soundtracks, but I never got around to it. I guess I'll just burn them

[sindohte]

I had the opportunity to listen to the soundtrack befoe seeing ROTK and I just fell in love with the music, especially the theme for the Steward of Gondor. For all you music majors out there, when I happened to re-watch FOTR:EE for the umpteenth time, during the Council of Elrond scene you can hear the Steward of Gondor scene when Boromir stands up and does his little speech about how his country has protected the lands of ME against Sauron.

[queenoftheshire]

Yes. After listening to the RotK soundtrack for the 5000th time, you really can see that the Gondor theme is used through out the trilogy.

[PoweroftheBook]

Yes...dear Lord, what genius is Howard Shore!

I'm not a person who cries at movies. Though I was a bit snuffly at RotK, I still couldn't squeeze the saline from my eyes. Music's a different story - aching melodies have sent me into crying fits, stirring music has given me the impetus to go out and do something!

With that in mind, I highly recommend #3, Minas Tirith - the 'climbing sensation' is terrific! #4 is stirring, #5 is both heartbreaking and chilling, once the music under Pippin's voice becomes more prominent.

In #14 or #15 (I can't remember which!), the score is set for Frodo and Sam's arduous climb up Mount Doom. The piccolo that suddenly comes in, as Sam pulls Frodo onto his back, is a sort of introduction for the tender 'Grey Havens' theme that just breaks my heart into pieces.

#17 - Return of the King - pulls you through the full gamut of emotion - from joyous celebration music, to the familiar and stirring theme of the Fellowship, to the familiar joys of Hobbiton, coinciding with Sam's wedding.

#18 - The Grey Havens - Don't get me started. I can't listen to this without having a box of Kleenex nearby.

If Howard Shore doesn't get some award or serious recognition for this work of beauty, something is rotten in Palookaville.

Regards for reading my ramblings,

The Power of the Book

[queenoftheshire]

Did you notice how much woodwind instruments they used? I think it succeeded in creating the perfect bittersweet type melodies. I think that was mainly what felt about RotK, it really is bittersweet. It's the end of the trilogy, something that can make you utterly sad, or excited.

I think the moment that got me the most emotional ( Oh PoweroftheBook, it's that same thing with me! I never, EVER cry in public places. It's just not somthing I do.) was the point in Return of the King (Track #17) where everyone bows to the hobbits. Just the perfect swelling music. I didn't feel that way at the theatre though. Truly a good soundtrack can sometimes make the difference between a good movie, or a bad one.

[Moralanqua]

Im gonna be the bone of contention and say that i was disappointed.

I love , LOVE the FOTR and TTT albums, they are magnificent!

I felt that the ROTK was thin with only a few tracks that made me go 'wow'. It seemed so short compared to the other two. I was expecting more, a mini opera maybe.

I really wanted the jazzed up Breath of Life to be on it too and it wasnt. *pout*

Im off to go listen to the Gladiator soundtrack - take that New Line!

[ElvenRanger13]

Bow down to Howard Shore!!!!!!

[Moralanqua]

Why? Does he wear leather and have pointy ears? I aint getting on the floor unless he does...

[BittenBuggy]

[LuthienTinuviel]

Downloaded it off the net and loved it.

[queenoftheshire]

That's exactly what I did. I don't really heed those music piracy things, I happen to think they're total BS.

[BittenBuggy]

I think its wrong to get profit from someone else's hard work. But...I won't say anything further than that

[queenoftheshire]

Well that part, yes it is. I think what I meant to say is I don't like the music industries actions. I mean they're badgering everyone from 13-80 years old, and sueing them for hundreds of thousands of dollars just because they downloaded a couple of songs! I agree that it is wrong to mooch off of someone elses hard work, but I just find the companies actions more like harassment, than anything else.

[LuthienTinuviel]

Heh... if I actually wanted it that badly I could've just forked off RM10 and head off to Petaling Street/pasar malam for them pirated/smuggled goods. The original stuff could cost between RM20-RM50 which is I'm afraid, a little too much for me to afford.

However, patience is a virtue no matter than you have a 56kbps modem.... and it's not that blatantly illegal at least.

Those record companies are big ripoffs... they knew that the music industry are big bucks, and they wanna reap off the harvest of these talents... and get rich. The integrity and quality of the music is usually taken into disregard, and only them nice pretty fleshy behinds or hunks with teeny-boppy beats that's mainstream.

*disgusted*

Take Mariah Carey for instance. She's bloody talented but she reduces herself anyways be conforming herself to them sugary poppish etc crap....and I mean both her music and her clothes.



lol, sorry... had to get that off my chest. I don't really have anything much on her, but really....

U$1 = RM3.80 btw